[DonaldC]

“I don’t want to pay the mortgage on your house And you don’t want to pay for my health care”

A mortgage is a choice. When health care issues arise, it is not always a choice or preventable. The feds simply need to be out of this business. I think much could be done to restructure payment on a local level, but doing something nationally is just nuts.

[hoosierham]

The government is simply the least likely to be truly compassionate and non-political;government always has an agenda of manipulation.Private providers are restrained by the knowledge that the customers can go elsewhere and take the money with them,but government programs don't allow customer choices.

Today's widespread obesity with the attendant diabetes and concurrent worsening of any other health problem IS a direct result of people taking up bad habits.All it takes to control weight for the vast majority of people is to eat less and healthier food.